Jungfrau Visited

While the sun shines

Make hay,

I knew forever

Not the real way

Fields of green

Turn shades of brown,

As the farmers

Mow them down

Pied beauty

Of lucid purity,

For miles around

Defying serendipity

Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau,

Thun and Brienz

Zenith to nadir

The splendid stance

The maker, the painter

Forgot not a nook,

By the green fields

Runs a clear brook

And in a haze of clouds

Cow bells ring,

Get closer to see

How their heads they swing

While in the church

The bells toll

The brook sings

"Men may come, and men may go - But I go on forever"

As the waters roll

- Mallika

(Composed on the flight back home today)

"Men may come, and men may go - But I go on forever" ....from The Brook by Lord Tennyson